Total US exports are $2.5 trillion, so blood is about 0.06% of that.
Edit: found a couple of reputable sources that put blood plus blood plasma exports in the $20 billion range. Possible that the discrepancy comes from whether plasma is included.
Kind of crazy that they are able to generate off of the bottom half of the US population. So out of the 175 million bottom 50% American population, with the actual donors being much smaller, their actual bodies produce a crazy amount of wealth that they can't capture and remain poor.
OP cites a MintPress News article [1] which links to an OEC visualization [2], or in particular a page on "Human or Animal Blood" [3] like you mentioned. That page has the US at $28.6B to Ireland's $25.3B.
[+] [-] larnmar|6 years ago|reply
This article http://www.worldstopexports.com/top-blood-exporters-by-count... total US blood exports at $1.4 billion, a distant second to Ireland. That includes both human and animal blood, and I’m not sure what fractions human.
Soybean exports, on the other hand, are closer to $17 billion a year: https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/international-markets-us-tra...
Total US exports are $2.5 trillion, so blood is about 0.06% of that.
Edit: found a couple of reputable sources that put blood plus blood plasma exports in the $20 billion range. Possible that the discrepancy comes from whether plasma is included.
[+] [-] downrightmike|6 years ago|reply
[+] [-] sologuardsman2|6 years ago|reply
[1] https://www.mintpressnews.com/harvesting-blood-americas-poor... [2] https://oec.world/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/export/usa/all/... [3] https://oec.world/en/profile/hs92/3002/
[+] [-] surgeryres|6 years ago|reply